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Date:31-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Will Dunham They look alike, act alike and long have been considered to be the same species. But, in the case of the golden jackals found across parts of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe, it turns out that appearances can be deceiving.

Date:31-Jul-15Country: UNITED NATIONSAuthor: Michelle Nichols The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday called on all countries to step up their efforts to tackle illicit poaching and trafficking in wildlife amid global uproar over the unlawful killing of "Cecil" the lion in Zimbabwe.

Date:31-Jul-15Country: NEPALAuthor: Aisling Curtis Landslides triggered by torrential rain in Nepal swept through villages on Thursday, killing at least 30 people close to the nation's most popular trekking circuit, home ministry officials said.

Date:31-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Victoria Cavaliere A U.S. shipping company has agreed to pay Hawaii more than $15 million to reimburse the state for the cost of cleanup and restoration following a massive molasses spill in Honolulu Harbor two years ago, officials said on Wednesday.

Date:30-Jul-15Country: ISRAELAuthor: Ari Rabinovitch A neglected grove of date palms, their leaves long fallen, trunks drooping in the searing heat at the lowest point on earth, is the latest casualty of a dramatic rise in sinkholes wreaking havoc along the coast of the Dead Sea.

Date:30-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Alex Dobuzinskis and Dan Whitcomb The U.S. Coast Guard was investigating a large, patchy oil sheen that appeared off the Southern California coast west of Santa Barbara on Wednesday, not far from the site of a petroleum pipeline spill in May, officials said.

Date:30-Jul-15Country: IRAQAuthor: Ahmed Rasheed and Stephen Kalin A searing heat wave forecast to sweep through Iraq prompted the government to declare a four-day holiday starting on Thursday and order regular power cuts at state institutions.

Date:30-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Shelby Sebens in Portland, Oregon, and Timothy Gardner in Washington Protestors rappelled off a bridge and formed a kayak flotilla in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday hoping to delay Royal Dutch Shell's Arctic oil exploration this summer by blocking the return of a ship to Alaska that holds emergency equipment.

Date:30-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Heide Brandes Several earthquakes shook Oklahoma on Monday as the state experiences a sharp increase in the frequency of tremors linked to wastewater disposal from gas and oil drilling, including from fracking, state and federal officials said.

Date:29-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Curtis Skinner Fires burning in drought-parched California on Tuesday menaced thousands of structures as firefighters struggled to corral the blazes there and elsewhere in the U.S. West, authorities said.

Date:29-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: LAWRENCE HURLEY A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday mostly upheld a major federal environmental regulation requiring some states to limit pollution that contributes to unhealthy air in neighboring states.

Date:29-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: SHELBY SEBENS Protesters began gathering in a riverside park in Portland Tuesday evening, planning to drop kayaks in the water to protest Wednesday's scheduled launch of a ship to be used by Royal Dutch Shell for Arctic oil exploration.

Date:29-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Alex Dobuzinskis A conservation group found 36 U.S. national parks had moderate or worse levels of ozone pollution in a report card released on Tuesday, with four parks in California receiving the worst grades for health effects.

Date:29-Jul-15Country: ZimbabweAuthor: MacDonald Dzirutwe; Wildlife officials on Tuesday accused an American hunter of killing Cecil, one of the oldest and most famous lions in Zimbabwe, without a permit after paying $50,000 to two people who lured the beast to its death.

Date:29-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: LAURA ZUCKERMAN A freak July cold front brought snow to the Northern Rockies on Monday in a rare weather event that set record-low daytime temperatures across Idaho and could see overnight readings at or near freezing in parts of the region, meteorologists said.

Date:28-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Valerie Volcovici Some of the biggest U.S. corporate names on Monday offered their support - and billions of dollars in green financing pledges - to buttress the Obama administration's quest for a global agreement on combating climate change.

Date:28-Jul-15Author: Lewis Krauskopf General Electric Co wants to be a "sizable" player in the market for systems that store energy to manage power volatility, a sector the company expects to quadruple to $6 billion by 2020, the head of GE's energy storage business told Reuters.

Date:28-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Richard Valdmanis Rhode Island's Deepwater Wind will start installing the foundations for North America's first offshore wind farm on Monday, a milestone the company says could pave the way for an industry long established in Europe but that is still struggling with opposition in the United States.

Date:28-Jul-15Country: FRANCEAuthor: Michel Rose The French government is considering a reform of the tax levied on power bills to fund renewable energy that would see it extended to natural gas and road fuels, a source close to the matter said on Sunday.

Date:24-Jul-15Country: LEBANONAuthor: Tom Perry The stench of uncollected refuse in the streets of Beirut is a stark reminder of the crisis of government afflicting Lebanon, where politicians divided by local and regional conflicts have been unable to agree on where to dump the capital's rubbish.

Date:24-Jul-15Country: CHILEAuthor: Anthony Esposito Chile's salmon farmers are using record levels of antibiotics to treat a virulent and pervasive bacteria, driving away some U.S. retailers including Costco Wholesale Corp, which is turning to antibiotic-free Norwegian salmon.

Date:24-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Laura Zuckerman Idaho fisheries managers will not follow the lead of neighboring states in restricting catch-and-release angling, despite a drought and heat wave that have killed or stressed large numbers of trout and other fish.

Date:24-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Valerie Volcovici The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a program for oil and gas companies to make voluntary pledges to cut and track emissions of methane, one component of its wider strategy to target the potent greenhouse gas and combat climate change, the agency said Thursday.

Date:24-Jul-15Country: CHINAAuthor: Jake Spring China is preparing a new scheme to encourage automakers and consumers to use electric and hybrid vehicles, learning lessons from California's efforts to promote a similar switch, the head of a major state-owned carmaker said on Thursday.

Date:24-Jul-15Country: SRI LANKAAuthor: Amantha Perera Sri Lanka plans to store and use a billion cubic meters of rainwater per year, which would otherwise drain into the sea, in an ambitious effort to boost irrigation and power production.

Date:23-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Mike De Souza Finding the root cause of the oil-sands pipeline leak discovered earlier this month in northern Alberta, one of the biggest oil-related spills on land ever in North America, will likely take months, a senior Nexen Energy executive said on Wednesday.

Date:23-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Courtney Sherwood Federal officials in Oregon have been trucking hatchery salmon more than a hundred miles (160 km) north to another hatchery in Washington state throughout July to preserve fish that had been dying off by the thousands in an unseasonably warm river.

Date:23-Jul-15Country: USAAuthor: Timothy Gardner The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday granted Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) two final permits to explore for crude in the Arctic this summer, but said the company cannot drill into the oil zone until required emergency equipment arrives in the region.